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• Quickstart timeout example shows HTTP connection for HTTPS request

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  psf/requests#7646 · Opened Nov 14, 2026

• `iter_lines(decode_unicode=True, delimiter=<str>)` raises `TypeError` when `Response.encoding` is `None`

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  psf/requests#7645 · Opened Nov 9, 2026

• parse_header_links drops parameters when a value contains '=' or a quoted ';'

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  psf/requests#7643 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 8, 2026

• Invalid `params` type (e.g. int) raises misleading "TypeError: Cannot mix str and non-str arguments"

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  psf/requests#7642 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 6, 2026

• test_stream_timeout and test_urllib3_pool_connection_closed pass without asserting when no exception is raised

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  psf/requests#7639 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2026

• ZIP extraction tests do not catch predictable temporary-file reuse

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  psf/requests#7638 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2026

• Non-string form field names raise AttributeError when files are attached

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  psf/requests#7634 · 12 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2026

• Lingering docstring references to python2.7 cookielib

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  psf/requests#7632 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2026

• TestTimeout abandons three delay/10 requests and later tests wait out the server

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  psf/requests#7631 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2026

• Incorrect type annotation for iter_lines

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  psf/requests#7630 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2026

• proxy_bypass_registry uses unanchored re.match (Windows proxy bypass)

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  psf/requests#7629 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2026

• Docstring examples in `from_key_val_list` show the pre-3.12 OrderedDict repr

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  psf/requests#7627 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026

• PR 5410 got merged but is not in fact merged

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  psf/requests#7620 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026

• OpenSSL 4 removed built-in logic for SKID and AKID

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  psf/requests#7617 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026

• Documentation for stream parameter is ambiguous

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  psf/requests#7599 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026

• Support for HTTP Query Method

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  psf/requests#7574 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2026

• Localization of The Requests Documentation

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  psf/requests#7357 · Opened Apr 13, 2026

• [Docs] Clarify behavior of timeout parameter in requests.get

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  psf/requests#7350 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2026

• Documentation for ChunkedEncodingError is either incorrect or very misleading

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  psf/requests#7341 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2026

• DMTF Redfish fails with 2.32 request module

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  psf/requests#7188 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2026

• Request for clarification: URL parsing behavior in Requests (RFC 3986 vs WHATWG)

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  psf/requests#7141 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 4, 2026

• POST Multipart-Encoding does not work if the Content-Type header has been previously defined in the session

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  psf/requests#6992 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2025

• Unexpected `SSLEOFError` when Receiving Redirect (307) Response with Large Data Payload

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  psf/requests#6885 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2025

• PreparedRequests can't bypass URL normalization when proxies are used

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  psf/requests#6830 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 18, 2024

• requests 2.32.3 & urllib3 1.26.18 issue with unicode put

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  psf/requests#6734 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2024

• Document which exceptions request() might raise

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  psf/requests#6653 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2024

• "Recommended Packages and Extensions" page asyncio recommendations are outdated

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  psf/requests#6582 · Opened Nov 23, 2023

• Requests are not retried when received body length is shorter than Content-Length

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  psf/requests#6512 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2023

• requests ignores no_proxy which contains a IPv6 CIDR

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  psf/requests#6313 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 21, 2022

• PUT requests for zero-byte files get 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked' header

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  psf/requests#6294 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 23, 2022

• IPv6 Zone Identifiers are not correctly parsed (still)

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  psf/requests#6282 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2022

• [Feature request or doc oversight?] Apparently, there's still no way to read uncompressed content as file-like object #465

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  psf/requests#6275 · Opened Nov 4, 2022

• apparent_encoding should be cached since chardet can be slow

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  psf/requests#6250 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2022

• Cookie having a Domain cookie-attribute with empty string fails to be added to the cookie jar

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  psf/requests#6245 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 22, 2022

• LookupDict does not implement full contract of the dict class

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  psf/requests#6238 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2022

• Transport adapters not honored with proxy

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  psf/requests#6205 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2022

• InvalidHeader exception when trying to add a ":method" header field (breaking change in 2.28.0)

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  psf/requests#6167 · 16 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2022

• 2.28.0: sphinx warnings `reference target not found`

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  psf/requests#6158 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2022

• Incorrectly strips trailing dot from absolute hostnames, causing TooManyRedirects

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  psf/requests#6131 · 1 comment · Opened May 11, 2022

• `proxies` input argument is mutated

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  psf/requests#6118 · 5 comments · Opened May 3, 2022

• Still cannot prevent requests library from encoding

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  psf/requests#6115 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2022

• Cookies that include a port flag set to 443 aren't stored if they came from an https location without the 443 port in the URI

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  psf/requests#6110 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2022

• HTTPS proxy certificate is not validated

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  psf/requests#6103 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2022

• urllib.request.proxy_bypass makes DNS request without using configured proxies when system has NO_PROXY configured at some level

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  psf/requests#6086 · 15 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 16, 2022

• UnicodeDecodeError after following a chain of redirects

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  psf/requests#6026 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 1, 2022

• Support for proxy that requires DigestAuth

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  psf/requests#6025 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 31, 2021

• Possible issue with proxies and TLS versions when using a session.

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  psf/requests#6015 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 27, 2021

• For Morsel cookies requests expects wrong Expires time format

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  psf/requests#6004 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2021

• Request doesn't provide a way to refresh headers for each retry, making it impossible to regenerate expired Authorization headers

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  psf/requests#5975 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2021

• RequestsCookieJar._find_on_duplicates wrongly fails on cookie with empty value

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  psf/requests#5950 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2021